Monday 10th to Sunday 16th November 2025
If you look towards the south west at
Look above Orion to see something even more obvious.....a 71%-lit waning gibbous Moon extremely close to Jupiter. Note that the Moon is a little to the right of Jupiter.
All of these targets will be easy to spot with the naked eye, so no telescope necessary!
Look again at the same time and in the same direction the following morning, Tuesday11th and everything will appear to be in near-enough the same place, except that the Moon will now be a 60%-lit gibbous shape and it will be located to the left of Jupiter. This is because the Moon is orbiting around us, so it appears to move completely differently to everything else in the night sky.
If you're really feeling the urge to dig out that telescope, just below the Moon, you could try to spot the Beehive open cluster of stars which is M44 in the Charles Messier catalogue, but the view is likely to be disappointing because of the light pollution created by the Moon.
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Screenshots courtesy of Stellarium
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